DNT 200 – NUTRITION FOR HEALTH SCIENCES

DNT 200 – NUTRITION FOR HEALTH SCIENCES

Project (Research Article Summary) Guidelines

Find a current (within the last five years) research article (a scientific paper) on a nutrition topic of your choice from one of the following sources:

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

American Journal of Nursing

Annals of Internal Medicine

Journal of Nutrition

Journal of the American Dental Association

Journal of the American Dietetic Association/Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

Journal of the American Medical Association

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Lancet

New England Journal of Medicine

Others with prior approval of the instructor.

Your article should be a full text article (not an abstract) and at least 5 pages long.  Submit your topic and source (to include journal name, volume, year, pages, etc.) no later than Monday 3/6/17.  Read the article and prepare a written summary of at least 3 double spaced typewritten pages.  Summaries are due on Monday 4/3/17 and should be submitted.  Your summary should include your opinion on the content or outcomes of your article.  Summaries should be written in MLA format to include the work cited (which would only be one, your article).

Do not cut and paste material from your article to your summary.  Cutting and pasting will result in point deductions and may result in a 0 for this project.

Journals may be obtained in an academic library.  Additionally, full text journals (e-journals) are available.   Alternatively, journals can be accessed through http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/.  Links to articles may also be found by subscribing to newsletters (free) at http://www.medpagetoday.com and http://www.medscape.com

ORDER NOW FOR CUSTOM-WRITTEN, PLAGIARISM-FREE PAPERS

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.